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Patent CA-2320562-A1 (CA)
Title: Cosmetic effervescent cleansing compositions
Inventor: SLAVTCHEFF CRAIG STEPHEN
IPC: A61K8/365
Filed: 2000-09-22
Abstract: A cosmetic cleansing article is provided which includes an effervescent cleanser composition held within a sachet having at least one water permeable wall. The effervescent composition is an intimate mixture of an acid material such as citric acid and an alkaline material such as sodium bicarbonate. Water contact causes the combination to effervesce. The powdered mixture of alkaline/acid materials is storage stabilized against premature effervescent action by dispersing therewithin plant solids.
Patent CA-2321303-A1 (CA)
Title: Method for determining a shape space for a set of molecules using minimal metric distances
Inventor: NICHOLLS ANTHONY
IPC: G06F17/30
Filed: 1999-02-26
Abstract: I describe several techniques for characterizing molecules based on the shapes of their fields. The minimal distance between two molecular fields is used as a shape-based metric, independent of the underlying chemical structure, and a high-dimensional shape space description of the molecules is generated. I then show how these attributes can be used in creating, characterizing, and searching databases of molecules based on field similarity. In particular, they allow searches of a database in sublinear time. Next, I extend the utility of this approach by describing a way to automatically break molecules into a series of fragments by using an ellipsoidal Gaussian decomposition. Not only can these fragments then be analyzed by the shape metric technique described above, but the parameters of the decomposition themselves can also be used to further organize and search databases. The ellipsoidal method can also be used to describe binding or active sites on macromolecules, providing a template for searching for complementary molecules in a database such as I describe. The most immediate application of these techniques is to pharmaceutical drug discovery and design.
Patent CA-2323098-A1 (CA)
Title: Method and access means for determining the storage address of a data value in a memory device
Inventor: JOHNSSON STEN EDVARD
IPC: G06F17/30
Filed: 1999-03-11
Abstract: The invention relates to a method and an access means for determining the storage address of a predetermined data value in a memory device. The data values are stored in an increasing order sequentially in a column direction according to a binary tree data structure. A new subtree root node is calculated from the previous leaf node address when the data value to be searched is not located in the previous subtree. Since a new subtree root node is always calculated from a previous leaf node address and the comparison result between the searched and read out value, the number of row address changes can be kept to a minimum whilst a high speed for the subtree searching is maintained. The search method and the access means is memory efficient since no pointers are used and fast, since the address of a next memory location to be investigated can always be calculated from the previous address and the last comparison result.
Patent CA-2325218-A1 (CA)
Inventor: VILLIGER RAOUL PATRICK
IPC: C23C4/06
Filed: 2000-11-06
Abstract: The method serves for the sealing of porous layers (10) at body surfaces (11), in particular of thermal spray layers of a ceramic coating material.      Communicating capillary spaces (12) in the layer (10) have openings at the surface (11). A liquid (2) is used as a sealing medium which consists of a solvent and at least one oxidizable metal which is contained therein. The method comprises the following steps: - a) application (3) of the sealing medium to the body surface and waiting for a penetration of the liquid into the capillary spaces, - b) input of heat (4) for the evaporation of the solvent component and for the oxidation of the metal at a temperature which is greater than a conversion temperature which depends on the oxidizable metal, - c) if required, an at least partial removal (5) of a deposit on the original surface which is formed by solid residues of the sealing medium, and - d) a single or multiple repetition of the application (3, 4, 5) which is defined by the steps a) to c), with the same or with a different sealing medium.
Patent CA-2329053-A1 (CA)
Inventor: YUE HENRY
IPC: A61K45/00
Filed: 1999-05-25
Abstract: The invention provides human SOCS proteins (HSCOP) and polynucleotides which identify and encode HSCOP. The invention also provides expression vectors, host cells, antibodies, agonists, and antagonists. The invention also provides methods for diagnosing, treating, or preventing disorders associated with expression of HSCOP.
Patent CA-2333379-A1 (CA)
Title: Lactide-containing polymer and medical material
Inventor: KAGAWA HIDEJI
IPC: C08G63/08
Filed: 1999-05-25
Abstract: Processable biodegradable materials, which are designed to remain in the body after surgery, typically do not retain strength for a reasonable length of time. The present invention provides a material that addresses these issues. Disclosed is a medical material which contains a lactide-containing polymer having weight-average molecular weight lower than 400,000 as determined by GPC and has a lactide content of 4,000 ppm or lower.
Patent CA-2333450-A1 (CA)
Inventor: BARTRUG BRUCE A
IPC: C03C17/00
Filed: 1999-06-10
Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of improving the durability of water-repellent films deposited on the surface of a substrate and to a coated article having water-repellent film of improved durability deposited on the substrate surface. The method includes the steps of simultaneously abrasively and chemically preparing the surface to expose an increased number of bonding sites on the substrate surface by applying a dispersion including an acid solution and an abrasive material to the surface. The dispersion is then removed and the water-repellent film is formed over the prepared surface. The bonding sites react with the water-repellent film to more effectively bond the film to the substrate and thereby improve the durability of the water-repellent film. The abrading material is preferably selected from the group consisting of alumina, ceria, iron oxide, garnet, zirconia, silica, silicon carbide, chromic oxide, pumice and diamond, and the acid solution is preferably selected from the group consisting of solutions of hydrochloric acid, sulfuric acid, tartaric acid, phosphoric acid, hydrobromic acid, nitric acid, acetic acid, trifluoroacetic acid, oxalic acid and citric acid.
Patent CA-2335753-A1 (CA)
Title: A direct smelting process
Inventor: DRY RODNEY JAMES
IPC: C21B11/00
Filed: 1999-07-01
Abstract: A direct smelting process for producing metals from a metalliferous feed material is disclosed. The process includes forming a molten bath having a metal layer (15) and a slag layer (16) on the metal layer in a metallurgical vessel, injecting metalliferous feed material and solid carbonaceous material into the metal layer via a plurality of lances/tuyeres (11), and smelting metalliferous material to metal in the metal layer. The process also includes causing molten material to be projected as splashes, droplets, and streams into a top space above a nominal quiescent surface of the molten bath to form a transition zone (23). The process also includes injecting an oxygen-containing gas into the vessel via one or more than one lance/tuyere (13) to post-combust reaction gases released from the molten bath, whereby the ascending and thereafter descending splashes, droplets and streams of molten material in the transition zone facilitate heat transfer to the molten bath, and whereby the transition zone minimises heat loss from the vessel via the side walls in contact with the transition zone.  The process is characterised by controlling the process by maintaining a high slag inventory.
Patent CA-2336641-A1 (CA)
Inventor: NOHR RONALD SINCLAIR
IPC: C09D11/00
Filed: 1999-07-20
Abstract: The present invention is directed to compositions containing a colorant and at least one water-soluble solvent, wherein the water-soluble solvent is a compound having general formula (I): wherein x is hydrogen or an alkyl having from 1 to 6 carbons; y is an alkyl having from 1 to 6 carbons; and z is an alkyl having from 1 to 6 carbons.
Patent CA-2338480-A1 (CA)
Title: Oral liquid mucoadhesive compositions
Inventor: DOBROZSI DOUGLAS JOSEPH
IPC: A61P23/00
Filed: 1999-08-24
Abstract: The present invention relates to a per oral, oral or intranasal pharmaceutical mucoretentive, aqueous liquid composition comprising from about 2 % to about 50 %, by weight of the composition, of colloidal particles of silica, titanium dioxide, clay, and mixtures thereof and a safe and effective amount of a pharmaceutical active selected from the group consisting of analgesics, decongestants, expectorants, antitussives, antihistamines, sensory agents gastrointestinal agents, and mixtures thereof; wherein the composition has a sedimentation volume ratio of greater than about 0.90 and wherein the triggered viscosity ratio of the composition is at least about 1.2. The present invention further relates to a method of coating the alimentary canal and nasal mucosa, in particular to a method of preventing or treating symptoms of upper respiratory tract infections or upper respiratory tract tissue irritation or damage, by administering a safe and effective amount of the above composition.
Patent CA-2338708-A1 (CA)
Title: Latex polymeres prepares a partir de sels amines ethyleniquement insatures
Inventor: SCHULTZ ALFRED K
IPC: A01N25/30
Filed: 1999-07-28
Abstract: L'invention concerne un procédé amélioré de fabrication de préparations agricoles et de polymères latex selon lequel on utilise au moins un monomère éthyléniquement insaturé, au moins un agent de surface actif polymérisable et au moins un agent technique. L'agent de surface actif polymérisable est capable de se copolymériser avec des monomères traditionnels utilisés pour former des latex. Il est, de préférence, entièrement consommé en cours de polymérisation. Les polymères latex de la présente invention conviennent bien à la fabrication de préparations agricoles qui contiennent un pesticide ou un herbicide. Combinés à de divers pesticides et herbicides, les polymères fabriqués selon le procédé de l'invention conviennent bien à la protection des cultures.
Patent CA-2340045-A1 (CA)
Inventor: MARTIN JEAN-YVES
IPC: A01N25/02
Filed: 1999-08-17
Abstract: The invention concerns the use as sticking agents, in formulations to be used in the presence of an aqueous solution, of at least a compound with elongation viscosity not less than twice that of water and a flow viscosity not more than six times that of water; said viscosity levels being measured for compound concentration levels ranging between 0,05 and 3 g/l.
Patent CA-2342492-A1 (CA)
Inventor: NANRI TAKEHIKO
IPC: F16H61/425
Filed: 2001-03-30
Abstract: To enable noise reduction control in a hydrostatic continuously variable transmission. A constant-displacement hydraulic pump and a variable- displacement hydraulic motor are disposed on the driving shaft, and are connected by a closed hydraulic circuit. Occurrence of hydraulic pressure on the hydraulic motor side is prevented by changing to TOP side the angle of the movable swash plate mounted on the hydraulic motor. When specific determining conditions are satisfied during engine operation, the movable swash plate of the hydraulic motor is inclined to TOP side, to prevent occurrence of an excess play between the rotating housing on the hydraulic pump side and the pump-side plunger, thereby reducing or preventing noise occurrence. The determining conditions are as follows. (1) The signal voltage of the throttle sensor 23 indicating the throttle opening is lower than the threshold value. (2) The vehicle speed is over the threshold value. (3) The acceleration is over the threshold value. (4) The engine speed is below the threshold value. (5) The establishment of conditions (1) to (4) is over a specific period of time.
Patent CA-2344712-A1 (CA)
Inventor: SHEPPARD PAUL O
IPC: C12N5/09
Filed: 1999-10-01
Abstract: Secretory Protein - 48 (Zsig48), polypeptides, polynucleotides encoding said polypeptides, antibodies which specifically bind to Zsig48 and anti-idiotypic antibodies. Zsig48 polypeptides cause leukocytes to proliferate and thus can be used to elevate leukocytes in cancer treatments and in immunosuppressed patients.
Patent CA-2346871-A1 (CA)
Title: Squaric acid activated carrier usable for immobilisation of compounds containing amine groups
Inventor: ABERG PER-MIKAEL
IPC: C07C49/753
Filed: 1999-10-14
Abstract: A storage stable composition comprising a carrier usable for the immobilization of compounds containing an amine group, for instance biomolecules and/or affinity ligands. The carrier has been activated to exhibit a squaric acid derivative linked to the carrier and is placed in contact with an aqueous medium. A kit comprising the storage stable composition is also disclosed.
Patent CA-2348047-A1 (CA)
Title: Insect trap and fitting
Inventor: MCCALLUM WILLIAM GORDON
IPC: A01M1/20
Filed: 2001-05-17
Abstract: An insect trap fitting adapted to cover an opening in a receptacle containing insect attractant. The fitting includes a cover plate with a first aperture in it and a first skirt extending downwardly from the periphery of the first aperture. A screen with a second aperture in it is located at the lower edge of the first skirt. A blade extends from the second aperture to a position above the first aperture in the cover plate. The fitting my also include a second skirt extending downwardly from the periphery of the second aperture, the blade extending from the lower edge of the second skirt to above the level of the first aperture in the cover plate. A fly trap includes the fitting and a receptacle.
Patent CA-2350756-A1 (CA)
Title: Methods and apparatus for flow-through hybridization
Inventor: FURNISS VERGINE C
IPC: C12Q1/68
Filed: 1999-11-22
Abstract: The present invention provides substrates and apparatuses for efficient, rapid and specific capture, and optimal recovery, of nucleic acids, as well as methods of their use. The substrate is porous in nature and has a capture polynucleotide capable of hybridizing to a target nucleic acid immobilized thereon. Upon flowing a sample containing or suspected of containing the target nucleic acid through the porous substrate, the target nucleic acid is rapidly captured. Following capture, the target nucleic acid can be efficiently recovered for subsequent use.
Patent CA-2353212-A1 (CA)
Title: Electromagnetic position single axis system
Inventor: GOVARI ASSAF
IPC: G01B7/004
Filed: 2001-07-18
Abstract: A system for determining the position of a medical device having a sensor comprises a plurality of field radiators wherein each field radiator has a plurality of radiator elements. Each radiator element generates a magnetic field such that each magnetic field is distinct from one another due to the use of a different frequency through simultaneous energizing of the radiator elements. A signal processor is operatively connected to the field radiators and the sensor of the medical device for receiving a sensing signal from the sensor indicative of the magnetic field sensed at the sensor. The sensing signal defines a measured magnetic field at the sensor. The signal processor also has a desired range of accuracy for the system which is stored therein. The signal processor includes an initial position estimator for establishing an initial position estimate for the sensor; a magnetic field calculator for calculating the magnetic field at the initial position estimate; a steepest descent calculator for calculating a steepest descent of the calculated magnetic field to the measured magnetic field; and a new position estimate calculator for calculating a new position estimate of said sensor based on said steepest descent. The signal processor determines the position of the sensor when the new position estimate of the sensor is within the desired range of accuracy for the system. Alternative field radiator arrangements are also provided in conjunction with a novel algorithm utilizing a global convergent technique.
Patent CA-2354234-A1 (CA)
Inventor: SHIPMAN ROBERT
IPC: C12Q1/689
Filed: 1999-12-10
Abstract: Cette invention concerne des ensembles d'armoceurs de s~quen×age de cycle et d'amplification qui permettent de d~tecter et d'analyser des mutations associ~es ~ une r~sistance aux antibiotiques dans des r~gions pr~d~termin~es des g­nes rpoB (rifampine), katG (isoniazide), oxyR-ahpC PR (isoniazide), mabA (isoniazide), rpsL/s12 (streptomycine), 16S/rrs (streptomycine), embB (~thambutol), pncA (pyrazinamide), gyrA (ciprofloxacine) et 23S (azithromycine) du Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Ces amorceurs peuvent Útre utilis~s dans un proc~d~ de d~tection et de caract~risation de Mycobacterium tuberculosis dans un ~chantillon. Ce proc~d~ consiste ~ obtenir un ~chantillon d'expectoration que l'on suspecte de contenir le M. tuberculosis, ~ effectuer une premi­re proc~dure de s~quen×age, avec ou sans amplification pr~alable, sur l'~chantillon afin de d~tecter la pr~sence de M. tuberculosis et, si ce dernier est pr~sent, ~ ~valuer les g­nes rpoB, katG, rpsL/s12 et 23S afin de d~celer la pr~sence d'une r~sistance aux antibiotiques entra¹nant des mutations. Si (c) l'on d~tecte la pr~sence de M. tuberculosis au cours de l'~tape (b), on effectue une seconde proc~dure de s~quen×age, avec ou sans amplification pr~alable, sur l'~chantillon afin d'~valuer les g­nes additionnels et de d~celer la pr~sence d'une r~sistance aux antibiotiques entra¹nant des mutations.
Patent CA-2354528-A1 (CA)
Inventor: LEE KANG-SOO
IPC: H01M10/08
Filed: 2000-09-06
Abstract: The present invention relates to an electrolyte composition for a lead storage battery, which can maintain the performance of a storage battery at low temperature by enhancing the performance and life of a storage battery. It can also be fully charged in a short period of time due to a greater current efficiency. The present invention can extend the life of a storage battery due to its effect of removing white-colored lead sulfate without corrosion at the electrode plates, and may lead to recycling of waste storage batteries ruined by white-colored lead sulfate.
Patent CA-2354624-A1 (CA)
Inventor: WEHRUNG BRIAN
IPC: G05B15/00
Filed: 1999-12-14
Abstract: There is provided a chemical vapor deposition apparatus for depositing substantially uniform films or layers onto a substrate or wafer. The apparatus includes a chamber with an injector assembly including spaced linear injectors and a chemical vapor delivery system for delivering chemicals to said injectors to form spaced adjacent deposition regions. Translation means reciprocally move said substrate or wafer a predetermiend distance in a direction perpendicular to the long axis of the linear injectors while maintaing the substrate surface parallel and adjacent to the chemical delivery surface of the linear injector assembly whereby the deposition regions of adjacent injectors merge to form a film or layer of substantially uniform thickness.
Patent CA-2356075-A1 (CA)
Inventor: DENLEY RONALD S
IPC: B60Q1/05
Filed: 2001-08-28
Abstract: A headlamp adjuster which includes an adjuster output shaft which is engageable with a reflector of a headlamp assembly. The adjuster output shaft extends from a housing,and the headlamp adjuster is configured such that in an overload condition, the adjuster output shaft is prevented from translating substantially axially, thereby reducing the risk of damage resulting from over-travel of the adjustor output shaft.
Patent CA-2356220-A1 (CA)
Title: Method and apparatus for reforming fuel
Inventor: TAKAHASHI KATSUMI
IPC: C01B3/38
Filed: 2001-08-29
Abstract: A gas mixture containing a fuel, water and air is supplied to one end of a reforming room, and a reformed gas containing hydrogen is discharged from the other end thereof. Two or more such reforming units are connected in series, and the upstream part of each reforming room is filled with a first catalyst which catalyzes a partial oxidation reaction in an oxygen-rich environment, and the downstream part is filled with a second catalyst which performs the reforming reaction. The gas mixture which has been heated in a heating unit passes through a distribution tube and is distributed evenly to the reforming units. The reforming room is composed of a reforming tube in which a reforming catalyst is charged, or two or more such reforming tubes, parallel to each other. After being reformed the high-temperature reformed gas is passed wound the reforming tubes, and fed back to a manifold.
Patent CA-2357494-A1 (CA)
Inventor: TURNER LEIGH R
IPC: G06F17/30
Filed: 1997-11-07
Abstract: Methods and systems for integrating a community with a web browser, and f or providing Internet-related content accessible by a user's client system, are  disclosed. One such method involves receiving a request from the user's client system f or foreign content, delivering the foreign content to the user's client system in response to the request, and determining community content that is related to the foreign content. One such system includes a foreign server for receiving a request from the user's client system and delivering foreign content in response to the request, and further includes a community server having community content where the community content is related to the foreign content, and the community server delivers  the community content to the client system if the user's client system is a memb er of a predefined community.
Patent CA-2360341-A1 (CA)
Title: Soap dispenser
Inventor: RICE PHILIP FREDERICK
IPC: A47K5/08
Filed: 2000-01-14
Abstract: A soap dispenser (10) includes retaining means (20) for supporting solid soap (30), the retaining means (20) being provided with an aperture (40). The arrangement is such that, in use, when water is caused to flow into the retaining means (20), soap dissolves into the water, and the water and the dissolved soap is thereby dispensed through the aperture without physical contact between a user and the solid soap (30).
Patent CA-2365490-A1 (CA)
Inventor: LINDSTROM MIKKO
IPC: B21D5/00
Filed: 2001-12-18
Abstract: To improve the speed with which a worksheet is positioned in a press brake, and to further eliminate the need for conventional moving back gauge systems, the present invention replaces the conventional back gauge mechanical system with sensors that non-contactedly determine the positioning of the worksheet, with reference to the bending tools. The thus sensed worksheet position is compared with the desired worksheet location preprogrammed into the CNC controller. Any deviation between the sensed, or the actual worksheet position, with the desired worksheet position for each bend of the worksheet is compensated by further moving the worksheet, until there no longer is any discrepancy between the actual and the preprogrammed desired locations.
Patent CA-2366824-A1 (CA)
Title: Low profile fusion cage and insertion set
Inventor: CASTRO SALVATORE
IPC: A61F2/44
Filed: 2000-04-07
Abstract: A vertebral implant (10) is provided with a concave cut-away section (16) configured to correspond to the outer circumference of another implant placed adjacently thereto. A  specialized distractor tool (20) with distractor tips (21) for distracting a vertebral space has two channels (26, 27) of generally circular profile that overlap in cross-section to accommodate implants according to the present invention.
Patent CA-2368361-A1 (CA)
Inventor: BOWERS MICHAEL J
IPC: E05D5/08
Filed: 2002-01-16
Abstract: A hinge is disclosed including a door wing, and a frame wing pivotally coupled to the door wing having an aperture disposed in the frame wing. The aperture has an opening disposed on a first edge of the frame wing configured to allow a shaft of a fastener to slidably fit in the opening and then into the aperture. The frame wing may be adjusted in at least two directions with respect to a frame by moving the frame wing with respect to the fastener, such that the adjustment is bounded by the shaft of the fastener within the aperture.